It’s her favorite novel, Jane Eyre, and she wanted to own it, to have it in her possession.

Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

I was trying to finish Jane Eyre.

Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl

Louise reminded me of Jane Eyre.

Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Jane Eyre.

Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

I had never loved a man before, physically, and I’ve read enough of both Jane Eyre and Brenda Starr to know every first love is potent.

Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible

Jane Eyre, it was called.

Alex Flinn -- Beastly

And then, a few days later, when he had stood in social science class and accidentally read from his paper on Jane Eyre instead of the War of 1812—I had looked at him in a way he thought was nice.

Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

On Wednesday evenings twice a month she attended a meeting of her book circle, five other women who enjoyed discussing Benito Cereno, Flowers of Evil, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Jane Eyre.

David Guterson -- Snow Falling on Cedars

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Ruth pretended to read Jane Eyre.

Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter’s Daughter

A Study in Scarlet has only a few bent pages but Jane Eyre has a wretched tear in it.

Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing

Muting Decapi— tation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.

John Green -- Looking for Alaska

And I read how Jane Eyre used to go up on to the roof when Mrs Fairfax was making jellies and looked over the fields at the distant view.

Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One’s Own

This was the age of Jane Eyre, whom we all remember refused to accept Mr. Rochester’s generous offer to make over her wardrobe, preferring merino wool to the silk organzas he ordered for her.

Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble

The novels of her girlhood that had stayed on in her imagination, besides those of Dickens and Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, were Jane Eyre, Trilby, The Woman in White, Green Mansions, King Solomon’s Mines.

Eudora Welty -- One Writer’s Beginnings

"Everything of Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, and all of Dickens and Shakespeare’s plays except Coriolanus, because everyone kills everyone, but I know Midsummer Night’s Dream almost by heart.

Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions

Miss Cowper in English, whose first words were "This fall, we will be reading Jane Eyre by Miss Charlotte Bronte, and I am not naive enough to believe that you will all like it."

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

Well, you have been crying, Miss Jane Eyre; can you tell me what about?

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Well, Jane Eyre, and are you a good child?

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

"Is there a little girl called Jane Eyre here?" she asked.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

"I came on purpose to find you, Jane Eyre," said she; "I want you in my room; and as Helen Burns is with you, she may come too."

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

"In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?" he demanded.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

"With Jane Eyre," he said.

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

"I don’t need any help with Jane Eyre because I’m not going to read it."

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

We didn’t talk about Jane Eyre anymore.

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

And I know you think you know why I don’t want to read Jane Eyre, but it’s not really any of your business, is it?

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

Finally, I have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, because to him — if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger — I have dedicated this second edition of "JANE EYRE."

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Miss Cowper still hadn’t made us start stupid Jane Eyre, so we had all 160 pages to look forward to—not that it mattered, because I wasn’t going to read it.

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte PREFACE A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Yes, sir, Jane Eyre.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre?

Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte PREFACE A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Eyre — Jane Eyre.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre, sir.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

" "This is the state of things I quite approve," returned Mrs. Reed; "had I sought all England over, I could scarcely have found a system more exactly fitting a child like Jane Eyre.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

A week later, while we were taking another try at the puffins—you can’t believe how hard it is to make a puffin not look like a chump— I told Mr. Powell about Miss Cowper and Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre.

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

There was going to be a storm and it was a perfect night for rereading Jane Eyre.

Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Miss Temple, having assembled the whole school, announced that inquiry had been made into the charges alleged against Jane Eyre, and that she was most happy to be able to pronounce her completely cleared from every imputation.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION I avail myself of the opportunity which a third edition of "Jane Eyre" affords me, of again addressing a word to the Public, to explain that my claim to the title of novelist rests on this one work alone.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry — that parent of crime — an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

But how would all this be affected by the sex of the novelist, I wondered, looking at JANE EYRE and the others.

Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One’s Own

"Is this Jane Eyre?" she said.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

I wished to see Jane Eyre, and I fancy a likeness where none exists: besides, in eight years she must be so changed.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

I wrote to him; I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

When we parted, she said: "Good-bye, cousin Jane Eyre; I wish you well: you have some sense."

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Jewels for Jane Eyre sounds unnatural and strange: I would rather not have them.

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

And yet where was the Jane Eyre of yesterday?

Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.